Mr. Nightmare

True Mall Horror Story #2

"My friend and I once went to the infamous abandoned rolling acres mall in Akron Ohio, I'll call my friend Jake for this story for privacy reasons. We went at like 11 o'clock at night on a Wednesday night since we didn't have school the next day. We snuck in through some door which had been jammed in by previous visitors. It was completely pitch black in there obviously, we turned out our flashlights for a few seconds just to take in how dark it was. We explored the lower level, then up to the second level by climbing up an escalator. As we were shining the flashlights into old closed off stores, we heard a bang like sound come from further down this upper level. I got scared and asked Jake if it could be security or cops, he said he doubted it, probably just more people like us exploring but we did still try to move in the opposite direction from the sound, just in case. We were right by the JC Penny in the mall when we heard another similar bang like sound, like from before, this time louder and closer. Jake and I turned off our flashlights now just to be safe, we didn't know who that could be. With our flashlights off, we did the best we could do to make a little distance between us and the sound without banging into walls or anything. Suddenly, I heard a " Psst", it came from a little further in front of me, it was kind of muffled too, so I assumed it was Jake calling me ahead. I kept hearing him going "Psst", so I kept following the sound of it, when I got close enough I whispered to Jake, " Where do we go now?", he didn't answer so I started feeling around for him and I found what I believed to be his shoulder, only the fabric of the jacket I felt did not match the fabric of the coat I knew Jake was wearing. I turned on the flashlight and screamed when I looked up and saw the person I was holding onto wasn't Jake but rather some tall guy wearing a beanie and a face mask. The man grabbed me and put me in a headlock as he tried dragging me, Jake came out from the darkness and landed one clean punch to the man's face, which gave me just enough time to take off as he let go of me. Jake and I ran to the same place we came in from, when we got outside we continued running until we got to the car, we didn't stop to catch our breath just yet though, Jake booked it out of the abandoned parking lot and only then did we feel relief. I gave Jake a firm handshake as I laughed and caught my breath thanking him for potentially saving my life".
-Unknown, Mr.Nightmare did not say who this story was by.